![]() ![]() The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. ![]() THE WILD Chapter One THE TRAIL OF THE MEATÄARK SPRUCE FOREST FROWNED ON EITHER SIDE OF THE frozen waterway. White Fang's view of his gods reminded me of the ancient Greek pantheon - all those jealous and fighting gods, some more powerful than others. I was especially intrigued by the idea of wolves/dogs seeing humans as their gods. The book does make you care about the characters, particularly White Fang and his final master. The slow taming of White Fang seemed more or less realistic to me, and my heart was in my mouth in the last couple of pages. I think the book does a good job of portraying the wolf as a completely different creature from the human - as well as a human can do without becoming a wolf for a while himself. I obviously never even started reading it. Much as I liked Narnia and the like, in fiction based in the real world, I wanted more realism. I figured it was going to be kind of cutesy, not really worth my time. ![]() I think I was afraid of anthropomorphism. For some reason, though I had it when I was little, I never read White Fang. ![]()
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